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Who decides who’s Racist?

August 20, 2019 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

When I was in High School I read a book called Only Begotten Daughter, a work of speculative fiction published…

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Posted in: 20th Century, 21st Century, Cultural History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Modernity, Nationalism, Rant, Theory, Writing

Maps Teaching History

July 25, 2019 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

I love maps. I love writing about them. I love rescuing them. I love reading about them on the internet. I also teach with them.

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Posted in: Cartography, Comparative History, History, Michael's Blog, Pedagogy

Golden Age Piracy Reconsidered

September 17, 2018 Michael Hancock-Parmer

the Caribbean in the early 1700s became the Golden Age specifically because those pirates spoke English

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Posted in: 17th Century, 18th Century, Comparative History, Cultural History, Current Events, Historiography, History, Michael's Blog, Popular History, Uncategorized

Revisionist Hunnic History

February 27, 2018 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Attila the Hun never invaded modern-day France

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Posted in: Ancient, Huns, Michael's Blog, Military History, Mongols, Nomadism, Pedagogy, Popular History, Research

Thoughts on New World Demographics

February 8, 2018 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

…our understanding of New World “tribal society” represents not an age-old practice, but rather the recently produced consequences of massive die-offs

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Posted in: 16th Century, 17th Century, 18th Century, Comparative History, Historiography, History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Nomadism, Popular History
Wikipedia as primary source

Wikipedia & History Teaching

June 27, 2017 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

(By Michael) Introduction I want to talk about teaching history using Wikipedia, but not in the way I believe the…

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Posted in: Comparative History, Historiography, History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Popular History, Rant, Theory
Amphitheater in Ephesus (Efes), Turkey

Genetics & Identity: My concerns

January 17, 2017 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

By Michael Following an introduction to the idea that we actually have no genetic relationship with many of our direct…

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Posted in: History, Identity, Michael's Blog, Rant

The Problem with Memes

November 15, 2016 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

Sharing political memes is not mentally hygienic

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Posted in: Michael's Blog, Rant

Stickers & Shoves

November 8, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer Leave a comment

By Michael Hypocrisy today is considered by most to be a serious sin, “the sin of pretending to virtue or…

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Posted in: Michael's Blog, Rant Filed under: altruism, humanities, religion, science

Mapping other landscapes

September 13, 2015 Michael Hancock-Parmer

By Michael The following link redirects to my second entry in a new column hosted by the Central Eurasian Studies…

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Posted in: Cartography, Historiography, Kazakh SSR, Kazakhstan, Michael's Blog Filed under: maps, redirect

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